The phrase "play a fool" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to pretend to be foolish or act foolishly. Example: "He always likes to play a fool in front of his friends, but deep down he's actually quite clever."
Marc Camoletti's Boeing Boeing, which ran for seven years in London in the 1960s, tempted him back on stage because he wanted to play a fool.
But I can still make some pretty mean balloon animals and I'm still great with other people's kids, who are always fascinated by a grownup who is willing to play a fool.
I first saw it as a poster for Sam Shepard's play "A Fool for Love" and fell in love with it.
Following that engagement, Griffith completed a play, A Fool and a Girl, based on his personal experiences in the California hop fields, which was produced in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1907.
You see it in his early Web video "Baby Cakes Sees a Play," a fool's take on "King Lear" (how's that for meta?) that is actually not a bad primer on the tragedy.
Nobody plays a fool quite like Pete Rose, dangling contrition just enough to pull at the heartstrings of a public that feels there is nothing more un-American than banning baseball's all-time hits leader from the game.
But unless you are playing a "fool" you do not get to checkmate while your opponent has almost all of his pieces on the board.
He is too much a man's man to play a bumbling fool for love.
Think according to the position of your enemies at the moment; never play like a fool.
The project's sole surviving champion is transport secretary Chris Grayling, now playing a loyal Fool to May's King Lear.
Playing a holy fool who rarely knows what he's talking about but always speaks the truth, he gives George shades of compassion and rue, and makes his apparently thoughtless comments explode like depth charges.
